Abstract:

Modern rates of Science Education development contribute to raising the requirements for the quality of the educational process and to attracting modern educational technologies. If in the process of preparing undergraduate students standard forms of education can be used (lecture, seminar, practical classes), then in organizing the training activities of undergraduate / graduate students such techniques are hardly appropriate, most likely their use will not bring the desired results.

To improve the educational programs of higher education, new forms of organizing educational activities are being introduced into the structure, for example, a research seminar - a special form of learning process organization that ensures the effectiveness of students' research activities.

The articles considers the educational technologies used in the framework of the research seminar on the example of the course “Problems of prosodic analysis of sounding speech”. The work with following software for sound analysis and processing are described: PRAAT, Speech Analyzer, WaveSurfer, MATLAB.

The main feature of research seminar is an active form of conducting classes (business and role-playing games, case studies, etc.) in combination with extracurricular, independent, work of students. Electronic equipment and information technologies are involved to stimulate the activity of students in the classroom. For the development of self-activity in the process of studying materials, students are offered to use online resources, prepare for participation in colloquiums and discussions on the proposed topics of the course, make presentations.

Keywords:

Research seminar, group work, educational software.